Drifting
 

Heard a guy on one of our local Christian radio stations tonight on my way to Sears. He was talking about drifting away from God. He said, it's easy to drift away from God because drifting requires no effort... it requires no energy.

But it's hard to stay on course, to stay in the middle of the stream. It requires effort and energy.

It was a thought provoking few minutes before I went in to spend my millions in Sears.

Any thoughts?

Any thoughts?

Yep! What'd you buy me?

Sounds true enough, drifting could also be called laziness., complacency, lack of direction, etc., it DOES take concentrated effort/intent to STAY the course.

Well I would have bought you one of those knives that never goes dull they wre pushing when I went thru the door but I bought one last year and it's all a dirty LIE

So aren't there any people out there who can add to this drifting thought? Preach to me.

First, don't come here for your preachin'. Fun, yes; sometimes. Entertainment, yes. Preaching, no!

Second, the dj is right, so don't be slothful.

Lastly, I hope you told them knife pushers as much. :santathumb

What!! am I NO ONE???
Certainly my comments weren't MUCH, not in the way of preachin, but I'm NOT a preacher! :D
per se

While I agree with this idea, I've been pondering something a little different lately.

I'm finding it's easier to hang onto things on the shore than it is to push out into the middle of the current and let it carry me. It's pretty easy to get ahold of a tree branch or something again too even after letting go....

It definitely takes a conscious decision to live for God where drifting or slipping or finding oneself further from God than they were is pretty easy to do one way or another.

OKAY I have a WONDERFUL analogy to add, (*cough *cough clearing throat)
yeah right :winkgrin

DRIFTING is one of my favorite televised sports!
YES, it IS a sport, one of which I was sorta coerced into watching, as a cuddly husb/wife sharing thingy. *rolleyes*
On the SPEED cable t.v. channel, (all to do with all forms of car/bike racing my husband LUVS it a 'man' needforspeed thing I guess) it is a form of racing downwards sorta, {but maybe not always on an incline} not really hitting pedl to the medal, so much as it is a combination of skills, having to do with downshifting/brake pedal/gas pedal something or other - I'm not savvy with, that makes the car more or less seem to "drift" as it keeps on speeding, and its soooo cool! *there are even women doing this* The car appears to be moving sideways.

I first heard of this watching some t.v. movie about it [Tokyo2]., with "VIn Diesel" making a cameo at the end; a popular movie that is like a sequel to 'Fast and Furious' with VinDiesel totally in it, I have to admit it was good.Interesting indeed.

NEway, LOL! Just teasin., all above is true however.
AND being as it WAS the first thing I thought about when I saw the thread title, my first posting on this, reflected the actual intent of the author..

carry on!

Sorry Simply, didn't meant to ignore you altogether.. just got sidetracked at the thoughts of having to buy yet ANOTHER Christmas gift, when I thought I had all my shopping done!!!

Drifting could be caused by laziness.. in some cases it most likely is.
Maybe also tiredness?
Weariness?

So there is the danger of refusing to leave the shoreline... and then the danger of getting sucked out too far.

One could use this drifting analogy when discussing getting out into the deep things of God... and keeping balance so they don't go completely nutty.
Or one could use this when talking about soul winning... how we have to get out there, beyond our four walls but yet we have to be careful not to go back into sin ourselves.

Then there is just the plain thought that I think this preacher was addressing... being a Saint and not fighting the good fight every day, whether it be laziness or wearieness causing us too just let ourselves drift.. any way the wind blows.

The second law of thermodynamics says, and I paraphrase, "Any system left to itself tends toward maximum disorder".

Just look at our physical bodies, our environment, etc. If we don't take care of things, and keep on top of things, those things don't get better on their own - it takes constant vigilance to make things better, and it only takes doing absolutely nothing for things to get worse.